The party’s message is simple – that the government runs from our taxes and is accountable to us to deliver basic services like security, justice and essential infrastructure.

We explain that without these basics, there can be no possibility of any progress. The people – long starved of these basics of good governance – are quick to catch on to the significance of what we are saying and soon realise that other political parties have long been fooling them by doling out freebies and crumbs – from money taken by the people themselves, after deducting huge administrative costs.

The people don’t need crumbs. They need basic governance. The government is our sevant and must be held to account.

We are effectively starting an accountability, or जवाबदेही movement, where everyone in government will have to explain what they have delivered and why they have failed to deliver (as is the case in all cases). Unfortunately, the current machine of government in India is incapable of delivering these core functions. And governments are busy dabbling in religion or attempting to bribe voters through freebies.

What business does the UP government have to promote a specific religion? It should provide basic governance services. The SBP manifesto shows how the machine of governance will be transformed in order to deliver these core functions.

Please join us at the grassroots. Till today, governments have failed to deliver basic functions to the people. Every system has failed: police, judiciary, administrative. This is no longer going to be accepted by the people.